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...that job, he chose six men and a woman teacher whose backgrounds are as varied as their task is huge. To a business-conscious U. S., businessmen are reassuring, and the President had named three first-rate captains of industry: i) huge, grey-blond Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, 61, Danish immigrant boy who graduated from shipyard riveting to the presidency of General Motors Corp., a ponderous, accented, self-made man, a production genius; 2) white-haired, handsome young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 39, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, able, good-natured, a man with some flair...
Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...
...TIME'S figures were correct but badly stated-Denmark produced one-half of the bacon, one-quarter of the butter, eggs in international trade. As to self-sufficiency: in 1936, a typical year, only about 13% of Danish grain and fodder was imported-which is not to minimize Germany's future troubles in supplying that quantity. Authorities: Statesman's Year-Book, League of Nations Statistical Year-Book 1938-39, The Northern Countries in World Economy and Denmark 1937 (both official publications...
...obey commands of his Foreign Office as long as it was under duress from Germany. Last week Minister de Kauffmann waited for his recall, but he did not intend to be jobless. He was busy setting up a commission to administer the affairs of Greenland. Since such a Danish commission would relieve the U. S. or Canada of the responsibility of feeding and protecting the big island, Minister de Kauffmann confidently expected to meet no objections...
Classic example of a historic U. S. figure-the self-made man-is hulking, ruddy Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, whose big competent mechanic's hands work the president's controls of one of the half-dozen biggest U. S. corporations: General Motors Corp. Danish-born Bill Knudsen believes (with personal justification) that success's best recipe is competence and hard work, its most powerful attraction the prospect of good...